We performed a comparison between Microsoft Entra ID and UserLock based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Authentication Systems solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very easy to run and it's part of their ecosystem and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set up conditional access, where you can enforce users to connect using multifactor authentication."
"Azure Active Directory is a very simple utility to use, it has very good visibility and transparency, and an easy-to-use panel."
"It is pretty good in terms of stability."
"Privileged Identity Management (PIM), managed identities, dynamic groups, and extension and security attributes are all great features."
"This solution is less time-consuming. We don't have to hire as many resources to give permissions to a particular user or group for any application."
"The solution is free to use and you can use it for every service."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to delegate roles to each individual resource, which is great."
"The most valuable features are two-factor authentication and real-time logon monitoring."
"We mainly implemented UserLock for multi-factor authentication, but the user login insights are also nice."
"ESAE management, especially the admin tools, could be improved. It should be built in by the vendor, and I shouldn't have to add patches or updates to connect to my domain directly. It should be added by default. The price could be better."
"The documentation could be better."
"Maybe there could be a dashboard view for Active Directory with some pie or bar charts on who is logged in, who is not logged in, and on the activity of each user for the past few days: whether they're active or not active."
"Initially, we wanted to exclude specific users from MSA. So, we had a condition policy, which forces MSA for all the users. So we wanted to exclude users who are using an NPS extension. So it was not listed, as a NPS extension was not listed outside an application, in actual, so, we go back and were not able to exclude users using NPS extension from MSA. So that was one limitation that we found and we had to work around that."
"My problem with Azure AD is that it's designed for medium to large systems, and we're not that large."
"Tech support is inconsistent."
"It doesn't function the same way as an Active Directory inside of an infrastructure, that is, a physical infrastructure. In the cloud, it is all flat. That's one of the disadvantages."
"We would like to have more granularity in the Azure conditional access in order to be able to manage more groups for devices and for applications."
"I would like to see UserLock add the ability to automatically create a group policy in Active Directory. That might streamline the setup process."
"The product and service are already great as it is but if I could add one feature, I guess it would be nice to have another factor of authentication (two additional factors) like your phone and a token for example, for when people forget their phone at home."
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Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 1st in Authentication Systems with 190 reviews while UserLock is ranked 21st in Authentication Systems. Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6, while UserLock is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UserLock writes "Affordable, easy to use, and integrates well with Active Directory". Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Okta Workforce Identity and Cisco Duo, whereas UserLock is most compared with Cisco Duo, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Silverfort, AlertEnterprise Enterprise Guardian and Aruba ClearPass. See our Microsoft Entra ID vs. UserLock report.
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